Game Thread 5: Knicks/Bucks
by Alex Boeder on Nov 7, 2009 3:44 PM CST
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Let's not do this tonight, cool?
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- New York, meet Brandon Jennings. Jennings wanted to play for the Knicks. And why not? For a point guard, in that system, in that city: the world is yours. Instead the New York Knickerbockers opted to take Jordan Hill two spots ahead of the Bucks on draft night. Coincidentally, once upon a time, Jennings and Hill were destined to play together at the University of Arizona. But Jennings went to Italy, where his draft stock certainly didn't rise, while Hill's certainly did at 'Zona. Now their paths will cross. And now the Knicks start a point guard who, well, he didn't exactly score in 39 minutes last night. [Full disclosure: Chris Duhon did drop eight dimes with just a single turnover in their loss to the Cavs.] Hill? Scored his first six NBA points last night. Jennings? Not a Knicks fan.
- This land is my land, this land is your Landry. He's only played a minute this year, but Milwaukee native and University of Wisconsin hooper Marcus Landry returns home tonight with the Knicks. Welcome.
- The Knicks, they are-a-struggling. Not a beautiful struggle sort of struggling either. Falling to what is most likely a rather angry Cavs team last night isn't much of an indictment, but getting worked by the Pacers the game prior is. Yes... 'twas that bad. This is a prime, prime I tell you, opportunity for the Bucks to gain a winning record and momentum for this nice little home swing. I don't even really want to comtemplate the notion of dropping this game. Hopefully Bogut will continue to assert himself offensively against David Lee, a capable defender but just 6-9, 240; the Knicks have only used Darko Milicic sparingly this year, but he'll probably find the court tonight.
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It’s not a must win obviously—too early in the season for that—but if the Bucks are going to be relevant in the standings these are the games they need to win.
Bogut has to capitalize on his size advantage over Lee and the Bucks need to contest shots as they’ve been doing (Gallinari in particular). Hopefully Jennings bounces back from last night…he should enjoy playing against an up-tempo team that doesn’t defend particularly well.
Love that floater
And even when he misses, Warrick is right there for the putback.
Do you think anyone on the Knicks bench cares at this point?
66-35 at half
Bucks played great, but the Knicks are an embarrassment.
28-13 edge on the boards.
60% to 34% shooting.
Bogut even hit all three of his foul shots, 13/8 at half. Meeks with four triples, why didn’t he play more in the second? Jennings hitting floaters all over the place, 11 pts. Warrick dunking all over people.
Only downside was 10 turnovers.
have jennings and warrick
been benched? the boxscores inform me they’re not starting the 2nd half.
"I've hacked into your brain. You're throwing a party and no one's showing up."
disregard
just an error by yahoo.
"I've hacked into your brain. You're throwing a party and no one's showing up."
Beating teams they should beat.
I didn’t know how many teams would fall under this category this year, but this was certainly one of them. Saw a stat on ESPN that said Milwaukee is the only team to hold all their opponents under 100 this year.
I figured if they could go 4-2 on this homestand I’d be real happy. Tonight was a good start. Nuggets would be a spectacular win.
Nuggs will definitely be something of a litmus test, especially for Jennings going against Billups.
by Frank Madden on Nov 8, 2009 10:47 AM CST up reply actions
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